The Chinese government has abruptly ended its international adoption program, ceasing all in-process and future international adoptions without citing a reason. The announcement comes as the country faces an overall population decline it is attempting to reverse after decades of coercive population control, sex-selective abortion, and forced abortion. In 2023, the number of newborns in China fell to 9.02 million.
During a briefing on Thursday, Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said Beijing will no longer allow international adoptions of children from China unless the child is being adopted into biologically related families or step-families. “We express our appreciation to those foreign governments and families, who wish to adopt Chinese children, for their good intention and the love and kindness they have shown,” she said. All pending adoptions have been canceled as a result of the decision, except for those that had already been issued travel authorizations.
U.S. families adopted 82,674 children from China between 1999 and 2023, more than from any other foreign nation. Overall, 160,000 children from China have been adopted out to families in other nations since the country first allowed international adoption in 1992.
The Chinese government said that the decision is on trend with other nations, such as Denmark and Norway, which have also announced they are slowing down or stopping international adoptions — and which are also experiencing birth rate and population decreases. […]
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